"On a Razor's Edge": migratory birds rely on this salt lake – but it’s dying
The Guardian, 5 March 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/05/salt-lake-migrating-birds-lake-abert-us
“Most people have never heard of Lake Abert, but it is a critical stopping point for migratory birds that have evolved to live on inland saline waters. In the past decade, however, it dried up five times, provoking recriminations between conservationists and local ranchers, who use water from the lake’s tributaries to irrigate their land.
Finally, in 2022, the two groups decided to work together, following in the footsteps of the numerous collaborative conservation groups that have helped diverse stakeholders around the rural American west to find common ground on topics such as fire and species conservation.
Now, the partnership faces a new stress test: the reality that in the climate-changed American west, there simply is not enough water to go around.”
The Guardian, 5 March 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/05/salt-lake-migrating-birds-lake-abert-us
“Most people have never heard of Lake Abert, but it is a critical stopping point for migratory birds that have evolved to live on inland saline waters. In the past decade, however, it dried up five times, provoking recriminations between conservationists and local ranchers, who use water from the lake’s tributaries to irrigate their land.
Finally, in 2022, the two groups decided to work together, following in the footsteps of the numerous collaborative conservation groups that have helped diverse stakeholders around the rural American west to find common ground on topics such as fire and species conservation.
Now, the partnership faces a new stress test: the reality that in the climate-changed American west, there simply is not enough water to go around.”
Caroline Eaton Tracey writes about the environment, migration, and the arts in the US Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands. She speaks and works in English, Spanish, and Russian. Her first book, SALT LAKES, will be published by W.W. Norton.
Caroline’s reporting appears in the New Yorker, n+1, New York Review of Books, High Country News, and elsewhere, as well as in Spanish in Mexico’s Nexos.
In 2022 she was awarded the Waterston Prize for Desert Writing and in 2023 she received Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Fellowship in Journalism and Human and Civil Rights and a Silvers Foundation Work-in-Progress grant.
Caroline holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives with her wife, Mexican architect and sculptor Mariana GJP, between Tucson, Arizona and Mexico City.
She is represented by Bridget Matzie of Aevitas Creative Management.
Caroline’s reporting appears in the New Yorker, n+1, New York Review of Books, High Country News, and elsewhere, as well as in Spanish in Mexico’s Nexos.
In 2022 she was awarded the Waterston Prize for Desert Writing and in 2023 she received Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Fellowship in Journalism and Human and Civil Rights and a Silvers Foundation Work-in-Progress grant.
Caroline holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives with her wife, Mexican architect and sculptor Mariana GJP, between Tucson, Arizona and Mexico City.
She is represented by Bridget Matzie of Aevitas Creative Management.
Caroline Eaton Tracey escribe sobre el medioambiente, la migración, el arte y la literatura en México, el Suroeste de Estados Unidos y su frontera. Habla ingles, español y ruso. Su primer libro, SALT LAKES, será publicado bajo el sello de la editorial W.W. Norton.
Sus artículos aparecen en The New Yorker, n+1, New York Review of Books y High Country News entre otros lugares. En español escribe frecuentemente para la revista Nexos.
En 2022 ganó el Premio Waterston por Escritura del Desierto y en 2023 recibió la beca Ira A. Lipman de periodismo de derechos humanos y civiles de Columbia University y una beca de la Fundación Silvers.
Caroline es Doctora en Geografía de la Universidad de California–Berkeley. Vive con su esposa, la arquitecta y escultora mexicana Mariana GJP, entre Tucson, Arizona y la Ciudad de México.
La representa Bridget Matzie de la agencia literaria Aevitas Creative Management.
Sus artículos aparecen en The New Yorker, n+1, New York Review of Books y High Country News entre otros lugares. En español escribe frecuentemente para la revista Nexos.
En 2022 ganó el Premio Waterston por Escritura del Desierto y en 2023 recibió la beca Ira A. Lipman de periodismo de derechos humanos y civiles de Columbia University y una beca de la Fundación Silvers.
Caroline es Doctora en Geografía de la Universidad de California–Berkeley. Vive con su esposa, la arquitecta y escultora mexicana Mariana GJP, entre Tucson, Arizona y la Ciudad de México.
La representa Bridget Matzie de la agencia literaria Aevitas Creative Management.